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  • Worth Fighting For

    by Rory Fanning
    Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.

  • 1919

    by Eve L. Ewing

    Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing
    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

  • The American Way of War

    by Tom Engelhardt
    The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

  • A Nation Unmade by War

    by Tom Engelhardt

    From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity.

  • Shadow Government

    by Tom Engelhardt
    A powerful survey of a militarized America building a surveillance structure unparalleled in history.

  • The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt
    With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.

  • Rifqa

    by Mohammed El-Kurd

    In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: “Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time.”

  • City of Women (London)

    by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Solnit, et al.

    A feminist reclamation of London’s hidden history, through a reimagining of the city’s iconic Tube map

  • The Mexican Revolution

    by Stuart Easterling
    Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?

  • The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor

    by Steve Early
    Longtime trade union leader and journalist Steve Early examines labor's civil wars, offering strategies for turning back labor's thirty-year decline.

  • African Struggles Today

    by Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig
    This groundbreaking analysis examines the gains, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles across Southern Africa

  • The Adventures of The Communist Manifesto

    by Hal Draper

    A new, definitive, translation of the Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Mannifesto by American socialist luminary, Hal Draper.

  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

    Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

  • Socialism From Below

    by Hal Draper

    In exploring the question: "What do we mean by socialism?,” Hal Draper argues genuine liberation can be won only through self-emancipation.

  • The Violent American Century

    by John W. Dower
    The Violent “American Century” addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945.

  • My People Are Rising

    by Aaron Dixon
    A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.

  • No Planet B

    Edited by Lucy Diavolo

    An essential collection of Teen Vogue contributions on climate justice that makes an urgent argument for intersectional activism.

  • Reading Revolution

    by Ashwin Desai
    Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.

  • The Brother You Choose

    by Susie Day

    Former Black Panthers Paul Coates and Eddie Conway discuss lives, politics, and their friendship that helped Eddie survive decades in prison.

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis
    Ben Davis draws the curtain back on the contemporary art world to assail its commodified roots.

  • Abolition. Feminism. Now.

    by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, et al.

    An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

  • Angela Davis

    by Angela Y. Davis

    Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.

  • Be Realistic

    by Mike Davis
    Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.